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This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.

This lecture lays out the violent culture of Roman power and the ways a wide variety of Jesus peoples resisted the empire and built new kinds of communities. Chapters Three and Four provide most of the material for this lecture, but some material also comes from Chapters Six, Seventeen, and Eighteen. Westar scholars Susan (Elli) Elliott and Art Dewey address the cultural context for “After Jesus before Christianity. A one hour and thirty minutes presentation including Q and A